On 7/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gerald Thurman</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:nanofoo@gmail.com">nanofoo@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello...<br><br>I was writing some stuff about the number 1776 and came across the following quote <br>from Stallman&#39;s &quot;The GNU GPL and the American Way&quot; essay:  &quot;The Free Software Movement <br>was founded in 1984, but 
its inspiration comes from the ideals of 1776: freedom, community, 
<br>and voluntary cooperation. This is what leads to free enterprise, 
to free speech, and to free software.&quot;<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list -<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(my 0.02:&nbsp; this is an excellent selection, and some good</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">&nbsp; reading material for today&#39;s world... I was almost tempted
</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">&nbsp; to &quot;cross post&quot; this to <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">rec.arts.books </span>on Usenet...) </span></font>
<br>In case anyone <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">[has some &quot;free&quot; time today, and] <br></span>wants to read the whole essay, it is at:<font size="4"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gpl-american-way.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gpl-american-way.html</a>&nbsp; </span></font><font size="1"><br>(maybe this is overkill, since that comes up as the first hit on a <br>
&nbsp;Google search for the title;&nbsp; but) </font><font size="4"><br>I just thought it would be nice - and <br>&nbsp;convenient - to provide the link here.</font><br>-- <br>Mike Schwartz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Glendale&nbsp;&nbsp;AZ <br><a href="mailto:schwartz@acm.org">
schwartz@acm.org</a><br><a href="mailto:Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com">Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com</a>